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...issue of relocation with Mexico since November of 1983. In April the Mexican government unilaterally decided to resettle the refugees in northern Campeche. The Guatemalan government publicly protested to the Mexicans after the El Chupadero incident and denied any Guatemalan army involvement. It requested protection for the refugees from guerrilla-sponsored violence, since the host country has a moral responsibility to protect their lives and cater to their wellbeing...
...state visit to Brazil late last month, Peruvian President Fernando Belaunde Terry was asked when he planned to lift the state of emergency in the Andean highlands, imposed in October 1981 after repeated terrorist attacks by Maoist Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas. Replied Belaunde: "When not a drop of blood is spilled for 30 days." Last week the rebels made a gruesome response: the bloodiest attacks around the country since Sendero's emergence as a violent force in 1980. Armed with submachine guns, rifles and dynamite, the guerrillas attacked police posts, army patrols, bridges, power stations and telecommunications lines...
...successful Morazán operation pleased no one as much as the U.S. military advisers, who have long been urging the Salvadoran army to shed its "9t05" habits and aggressively pursue the guerrillas in their strongholds. The army also helped relocate hundreds of peasants who have been alienated by a guerrilla recruitment drive. In addition, the Salvadoran army says that since January some 400 demoralized rebels have turned themselves in to the army. Monterrosa's brigade now plans to establish a permanent presence, including a forward command post, in the reoccupied areas...
...growing number of immigrants are Salvadorans and other Central Americans fleeing guerrilla war and political oppression as well as economic deprivation. But the largest group is composed of Mexicans who see little chance of earning a satisfactory living in their crowded homeland. To enter the U.S. most pay $250 to $350 each to smuggler-guides called coyotes, who sometimes rob or beat them. If they elude the INS, the immigrants usually can find jobs in an expanding Sunbelt economy. If employers sometimes pay them less than the $3.35 an hour minimum wage-well, they still earn substantially more than they...
...making her decision to attack, the Prime Minister relied largely on Indian intelligence reports indicating that Bhindranwale and his followers were stockpiling vast quantities of weapons inside the temple. Said one report: "Bhindranwale has an arsenal of weapons any guerrilla army in the Third World would be proud to call its own. He is preparing to attack the government...